Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - Julien Simon and his wife were living happily in their condo in the Vancouver suburb of Burnaby when life intervened last year in the form of a baby on the way. The couple - he’s an In...

REGINA - At the peak of the last oil boom, there were so many people living in the southeastern Saskatchewan city of Estevan that there was nowhere to stay. “We had people sleeping in trailers -...

HALIFAX - George MacDonald has seen it play out generation after generation, the timeworn ritual of watching friends and family pick up stakes and head west. The councillor for Glace Bay, a hardscrabb...

TORONTO - After he graduated in 2011, mechanical engineer David Momoh did what countless others in Ontario had done before him: he looked west, to the land of oil and opportunity. Then boom turned to ...

OTTAWA - Highlights from Wednesday’s first release of data - focused on population and dwellings - from the 2016 census: - The census counted 35,151,728 people on May 10, 2016, an increase of 1....

OTTAWA - Colin Basran is having growing pains. In some ways a victim of his own success, the mayor of Kelowna has been struggling in recent years to rein in his city as it slowly spreads across the B....

CARBONEAR, N.L. - The house where a five-year-old Newfoundland girl was found after allegedly being killed by her father has been torn down. About a dozen people gathered Wednesday morning as wrecking...

HALIFAX - Tired of waiting for the arrival of a privately-sponsored Syrian family, a Halifax woman decided to travel to Jordan to meet them herself. Stephanie Gillis says it’s been more than a y...

LAKE LOUISE, Alta. - The Trans-Canada Highway has reopened after an avalanche rolled across the road in southeastern British Columbia. The slide happened on Mount Stephen in Yoho National Park early W...

HALIFAX - A vote on the latest contract offer for Nova Scotia teachers has been postponed by a day due to bad weather. The Nova Scotia Teachers Union says in a statement that the vote will be held onl...